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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 619619 Facilitating maturing of sociotechnical patterns through social learning approaches Graz, October 2015 Christine Kunzmann Pontydysgu Andreas P. Schmidt Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences Carmen Wolf Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 619619

Facilitating maturing of socio‐technical patterns throughsocial learning approaches

Graz, October 2015

Christine Kunzmann Pontydysgu

Andreas P. Schmidt Karlsruhe University ofApplied Sciences

Carmen WolfKarlsruhe Institute ofTechnology

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• Interventions in organizations, for improving learning, processes, or similar:

• Often wider social and motivational aspects are forgotten or insufficiently dealt with 

• Problem: issues are complex and depend on experiences 

• How to represent these experiences and make them accessible?

Social aspects

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• Pioneering research in architecture by Christopher Alexander

• Structured description that provides a generalized and condensed description of proven solutions

• Problem: what kind of problem was solved?• Solution: how was it solved?• Context: under which conditions does the solution represent a 

solution to the problem?• Evidence: examples or evaluation results 

• More attributes are typically added

Design Patterns

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• But how about affective aspects, motivation?

• These are particularly difficult to elicit and discuss because of social expectations and accepted behavior• Emotions at the workplace?• Being not motivated?

• But they are often at the core of the problems!

• MATELhttp://matel.professional‐learning.eu

Socio‐technical patterns

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• What is captured in patterns?

• Patterns represent collective knowledge about• understanding the specified problem• possible solutions (and their contextual dependencies)• and evidence about it (examples)

• So pattern development is a collective learning process• … for which knowledge maturing is a model

Problem: How can socio‐technical patterns be developed and used on a continuous basis?

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Maturing of Pattern Knowledge

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• How can we improve the activities of becoming aware of soft aspects and sharing them effectively? • Peer coaching 

• How can we improve the creation of a structured representations in a conversational space?• Living Documents

• How can we improve spreading proto‐patterns and invite others for larger‐scale conversations?• Social learning programmes

Challenges for pattern maturingA social learning tool chain

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• Individual driven. Patterns arise from challenging situation for which peer coaching is sought

• Spreading to others.Advisers become aware of similar problems in their own context and engaged in connecting problems with solutions

• More depth. Structured peer coaching process promotes solution‐orientation and ensures deeper investigation including affective aspects of the individual.

• De/Re‐Contextualization.Client is facilitated to decontextualize his problem, the advisers suggest decontextualized solution opportunities, and within the session, this is recontextualized for a concrete solution plan.

Peer Coaching

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• Structured process • to help an individual („client“) to find possible solutions to a 

specific issue• with support from peers („advisers“) and a moderator

Peer Coachingas a structured process for early maturing phases

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Living Documents

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• Integrated into peer coaching tools• Just for the closed peer coaching group• But can be shared with a wider audience

• Promotes the transition from peer coaching session minutes into proto‐patterns• the group 

needs to agree on how to deal with potentially confidential details.

Living DocumentsConversations around documents

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• MOOCs without the massive:• open spaces • prepared instructional material • spaces for social exchange among the participants.

• Proto‐patterns are presented to a larger audience• proto‐patterns act as a trigger and catalyst for participants join 

the conversation and contribute their experiences• combination of the different experiences and integration with 

existing proto‐patterns (and possible refactoring) can happen through the living documents system.

Social Learning Programmes

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• The pattern approach introduces a solution focus into social learning and captures also soft aspects.

• Particularly peer coaching is well suited for early maturing phases, but needs follow‐up activities for summarizing and sharing effectively.

Conclusions

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Outlook:Patterns as boundary objects in research projects

• Build the solution focus into project management, e.g., in collaborative research projects

• Goal: relevant and transferrable resultsfrom design and prototyping activities and reflecting on experiences in practice 

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Contact

Christine KunzmannPontydysgu Ltd.mail: kontakt@christine‐kunzmann.dehttp://christine‐kunzmann.de

Carmen WolfKarlsruher Institut für Technologiemail: [email protected]://www.ibap.kit.edu/berufspaedagogik/mitarbeiter_928.php

Andreas P. Schmidt Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciencesmail: andreas_peter.schmidt@hs‐karlsruhe.dehttp://andreas.schmidt.name